Archive of Past Events
2022
|
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
|
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 A Reading and Conversation with Iman Mersal
Campus Center, Weis Cinema 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Iman Mersal is an Egyptian poet, essayist, translator and literary scholar, and Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of five books of Arabic poetry, selections from which have been translated into numerous languages. In English translation, her poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Parnassus, the Paris Review, the Nation, American Poetry Review, among others. A selection of Mersal’s poetry, entitled These Are Not Oranges, My Love, translated by the poet Khaled Mattawa, was published in 2008 (Sheep Meadow Press, NYC). Another selection is forthcoming in Spring 2022 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translated by Robyn Creswell. Her most recent publications include Kayfa Talta’im: ‘An al-Umuma wa Ashbahiha (Kayfa Ta and Mophradat, 2017), translated into English by Robin Moger as How to Mend: Motherhood and its Ghosts (Kayfa Ta and Sternberg Press, 2018. Fi Athar Enayat al- Zayyat (In the Footsteps of of Enayat al-Zayyat, 2019) has been translated into French by Richard Jacquemond, as Sur les traces d’Enayat Zayyat, Actes Sud. The book was awarded the prestigious Shaykh Zayed award for literature in 2021. Readings will be in both Arabic and English and copies of How to Mend: Motherhood and its Ghosts will be available in both languages. The conversation will be moderated by Dina Ramadan. This event is co-sponsored by the Literature, Written Arts, and Gender and Sexuality Studies programs, the Human Rights Project, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, as well as the John Ashbery Poetry Series. Masks required. |
|
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
|
Thursday, March 31, 2022 – Friday, April 1, 2022 Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy
with keynote sessions by Dr. Lara HarbOnline Event “Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy” seeks to highlight how Islamic philosophy (falsafa/ḥikma) was practiced “in conversation”—between scholars, with various audiences, and with different disciplines, approaches, and rhetoric. Islamic philosophy was composed not only in traditional forms of treatises and commentaries but also through narratives written in poetry and prose. For example, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī penned a panegyric poem written in Persian in praise of logic, physics, and metaphysics, alongside his many philosophical prose treatises. Ibn al-ʿArabī’s philosophical mysticism includes prose that reads as Aristotelian commentary alongside succinct poems highlighting his key philosophical concepts through mystical metaphors. In reference to Ibn Sīnā’s allegorical treatise, Ibn Tufayl’s famous Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān provides an intriguing narrative and philosophical thought experiment. What do story-telling, poetry, narrative, metaphor, and allegory reveal about the nature and purpose of philosophy? The conference is organized in conjunction with the “Islamic Philosophy in Conversation” working group. The conference aligns itself with the goals of the working group, and therefore seeks to highlight the work of a diverse group of scholars, including emerging scholars of Islamic philosophy, as well as those who identify as female, non-binary, or as belonging to a historically-marginalized group. On Thursday, March 31, from 5-6:30 pm, Dr. Lara Harb will lead a discussion of a primary source text (sections 38 and 39 from Averroes' commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics). If you would like to join the discussion, please contact Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed ([email protected]) for the meeting link. For the full program and details on how to attend see our website. |
|
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
|
Monday, March 14, 2022 MES Open House
Reem-Kayden Center 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4Interested in moderating in Middle Eastern Studies at Bard College? Curious about the program? Come join us Monday, March 14 at 4:30 pm on the RKC 220 Terrace to find out more about our courses and faculty. Or just stop by for some sweets from Damascus Bakery in Brooklyn! Professors Dina Ramadan and Elizabeth Holt, MES codirectors. For more information please contact Dina at [email protected] or Beth at [email protected]. |
|
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
|
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 Examining the Colonial Assemblage in Rural Palestine
Wassim GhantousOnline Event 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Over the last two decades, the Israeli regime of colonization and control in Palestine has multiplied significantly. In its expansion, public, hybrid, and civilian actors and institutions come to form an overall settler colonial assemblage. This talk aims to shed light on how such a diffuse regime of colonization operates today in rural areas of the West Bank by attending to Palestinians’ everyday encounters with the Israeli army, settler vigilante groups and organizations, and privatized security bodies and agents. In particular, the talk will highlight the modes of violence produced by the colonial assemblage, the ways in which they affect Palestinians’ everyday life, as well as Palestinians’ manoeuvring efforts to evade them as means to remain steadfast in their homeland. Wassim Ghantous is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University, New York. His academic research cuts across the fields of political geography and international relations, and the sub-fields of critical security studies, surveillance studies, settler colonial studies, and Palestine studies. Previous to his academic career, he worked in several Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations, most notably at the BADIL Resource Center and B’Tselem. This lecture will be delivered virtually via Zoom. Please join via the link below. Join Zoom Meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/81354083579 Meeting ID: 813 5408 3579 |
|
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
|
|
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline Commons 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area). Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |